A threshold for laser-driven linear particle acceleration in unbounded vacuum

We hypothesize that a charged particle in unbounded vacuum can be substantially accelerated by a force linear in the electric field of a propagating electromagnetic wave only if the accelerating field is capable of bringing the particle to a relativistic energy in its initial rest frame during the i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wong, Liang Jie, Kaertner, Franz X.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86994
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8733-2555